With the election results, the citizens of Kosovo have shown that they are committed to change, while the old parties have compromised, together with the CEC – which are in their favor and against Self-Determination, a publicist from Pristina, Fadil Lepaja told KoSSev.
According to Lepaja, the fact that according to the final results which reveal that LVV won almost 50% of the votes, thus coming close to the „absolute majority of votes“ – i.e. the party does not have enough votes to form a government on its own – is another reason to deepen previous doubts about the CEC’s operation – namely, its most recent decision to reject a larger number of votes from the diaspora.
„The CEC was already under suspicion as a commission that worked against Self-Determination and in favor of the old parties that were politically broken, this is especially true for the LDK,“ Lepaja said.
It is Lepaja’s belief that the very victory of Self-Determination is confirmation that the citizens are once again committed to change.
„All the more so because the LDK and PDK have compromised themselves, either through corrupt rule or secret negotiations over borders,“ he stressed.
Speaking of the largest Kosovo Serb party – Srpska Lista, Lepaja alleged that, although it got votes, it lost a lot of credibility due to the alleged rigging of elections.
„I believe that they played a dangerous card by trying to cause strife and vote for some ‘pro-Serbian’ parties of minority communities, and thus they lost a lot of credibility – by rigging elections.“
Lepaja recalled that Kurti had previously announced a government with non-Serb minority communities and that SL will now get „only what he has to give them according to the constitution“.
„Kurti has already announced talks with the Serb community outside the framework that SL is trying to impose, and outside the Kosovo forces standing behind them. Therefore, they will get from Kurti’s government only what they have to get according to the constitution,“ he said.
Lepaja could not say whether Self-Determination, in the future government, will be able to complete the full four-year mandate. He, however, noted that instability and changes are yet to come for other parties, primarily LDK and PDK.
„The coming to power of the Self-Determination movement will cause changes, especially in the LDK, which must be reformed or it will completely break apart, even though it has already keeled over. The conflict between the factions is expected to continue in the Democratic Party as well because all kinds of things happened within the party lists, the struggle of individuals and groups for supremacy and consolidation after the departure of the two leaders of that party to The Hague,“ concluded Lepaja.
Citizens were reform-minded, with expectations that the government will be reform-oriented – dialogue and cooperation with SL
The executive director of the ACDC from North Mitrovica, Dusan Radakovic shares Lepaja’s assessment that the citizens were reform-minded while voting, but also that the new government is now expected to be reform-oriented.
„This will primarily be assessed by their behavior in dialogue with Belgrade and cooperation with SL.“
Radakovic stated that there is already some visible support between 5 and 6 votes of minority parties – Turkish, one Bosniak, and the Ashkali party.
„With 6 or 7 minority votes, Kurti can have a serious majority and I do not believe that he will be forming a government with some other Albanian parties,“ Radakovic said.
Radakovic underlined that when it comes to selecting the next President of Kosovo, i.e. the candidate who is supported by Self-Determination – Vjosa Osmani, Kurti will need the support of all the so-called minority parties – including SL, but also another Albanian party, given that a total of 81 votes are required to elect the president in the first and second rounds.
„It is the vote for the president of Kosovo that should be the one common point of the Self-Determination and SL, that is, a mutual coalition agreement,“ said Radakovic.
„It will be one of the first issues Kurti will face, but at the same time the issue of negotiations with Belgrade, because we see that the entire European community is pushing the story to continue negotiations immediately, maybe even at the end of April,“ he added.
While revealing that he would not be surprised if Kurti takes one of the Serb representatives from the Srpska Lista opposition to lead one of the (ministry) institutions, Radakovic further stated that Kurti will have to respect the success of SL, but also the obligations from the constitution.
Radakovic, however, expects the Pristina government to be stable, precisely because of the majority that Kurti will now provide more easily.
„Until now, almost no one had such a majority, Rugova himself did not have it. So I think that this reform-minded vote shows that this government – if the negotiations with Belgrade go in the right direction and are in correlation with the EU and the US embassy and institutions -should complete the full mandate,“ he told KoSSev.
According to the final election results, LVV won almost 50% of the votes, i.e. 58 seats, while SL won 10 seats. PDK will have 19 seats, LDK – 15 and AAK – 8.
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